# Senior Product Engineer

**Company:** [Rover](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rover)
**Location:** Barcelona, Spain
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** €63k – €76k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, Django, Java, Go, C#, Kotlin, React, TypeScript, Relational Databases, Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch, REST APIs, Infrastructure As Code
**Posted:** 2026-04-27

> Build backend systems and customer-facing trust and safety products for Rover, with ownership from design through production monitoring. The role requires 7+ years of software engineering experience, technical leadership, backend depth, strong testing and observability practices, and comfort working across the stack with AI-assisted development tools.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build systems for identity verification, risk scoring, fraud detection, and real-time AI-powered incident detection.
- Develop customer-facing products that improve the lives of users and pets.
- Own problems end-to-end, from understanding business needs and designing solutions to shipping and monitoring them in production.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists to define requirements and drive projects forward.
- Maintain high standards of code quality, maintainability, testing, observability, and engineering craftsmanship.
- Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, share knowledge, and provide technical leadership.
- Use AI coding assistants to generate, debug, refactor, review, and explore code while critically validating their output.
- Work across the stack, including navigating React/TypeScript frontends when needed.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong track record delivering backend systems.
- Experience mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, leading technical design reviews, or shaping engineering practices.
- Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with Python and Django; experience with Java, Go, C#, or Kotlin is also welcome.
- Knowledge of relational databases, including schema design, query optimization, and migrations.
- Experience with structured logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Strong automated testing discipline across unit, integration, and contract testing.
- Daily experience using AI coding assistants such as Claude Code or Copilot.
- Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and handle ambiguity.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or XP.
- Good written and spoken English.

## Nice to Have
- React or React Native experience.
- Distributed systems experience with async task queues such as Celery or RabbitMQ, caching layers such as Memcached or Redis, and event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with Elasticsearch or similar search infrastructure.
- REST API design at scale, including Django REST Framework or an equivalent.
- Exposure to continuous deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Experience building custom AI-assisted development workflows or automating repetitive tasks.

## Compensation and Benefits
- First-year salary range in the greater Barcelona area: **€62,722–€76,027**.
- Long-term incentive plan with a company performance-based cash payout.
- Pension plan and private medical insurance.
- 25 days of paid time off.
- Meal allowance and flexible compensation plan for transport and nursery.
- Gym membership.
- €450 toward pet adoption costs.
- Annual €150 wellness reimbursement.
- Flexible work hours.
- Dedicated learning time.
- Dog-friendly office, snacks, fresh fruit, and team activities.

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